Vigilante (band)
| Vigilante | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| origin | Tokyo , Japan |
| Genre (s) | Progressive metal , power metal |
| founding | 1988 |
| Website | http://vigilantemetal.com/ |
| Current occupation | |
| Makoto Unno | |
| Shunji Fujino | |
| Hiroshi Omoto | |
Electric guitar |
Kazuaki Horie |
| Hideaki Niwa | |
| former members | |
Electric bass |
Koji Kuwagaya |
Drums |
Kazuhisa Yoshimura |
Drums |
Makoto Miyao |
singing |
Takashi Yamaguchi |
Drums |
Shu-ya Yamaichi |
Vigilante is a Japanese progressive and power metal band from Tokyo that was formed in 1988.
history
The band was founded in 1988 by the guitarist Hiroshi Omoto and was named after the Magnum song of the same name . After the first appearances, the band was able to meet the then manager of Gibson in Japan, Loyd Love. The members borrowed guitars from his office and recorded the Fatal Superstition demo within a week . After that, the line-up of the band changed several times before a new permanent line-up was found after a break of several months. It now consisted of guitarists Hiroshi Omoto and Kazuaki Horie, singer Hideaki Niwa, new drummer Kazuhisa Yoshimura and new bass player Makoto Unno. In 1997 the band had their first major concert in Tokyo. The concert was almost two hours long and over 20 original compositions were played. Then began recording the debut album Chaos Pilgrimage , which was released in April 1998. In September the group was invited to the Bang Your Head Festival. In the end, a performance did not materialize, but the group was interviewed on stage. After the band returned from Germany , they signed a license agreement for five albums with Massacre Records . The debut album was re-released across Europe in March 1999 . The second album Edge of Time followed in September, the European version followed in November. Thumbnail at You, Master followed shortly thereafter as a single . After the album was released, the band went on tour before Shu Yamaichi joined as the new drummer in March 2002. In April the group signed a license agreement with the Korean label Ponycanyon Korea , whereupon a 2- CD version of the first two albums was released via Biozone Music . In August 2004 the next album was released with Cosmic Intuition . Other tours followed, including a gig in Seoul with Jeremy . As part of a promotional tour, the band was seen on Bang Your Head in July 2005. In July the band played together with the Australian band Dungeon and in September again with Jeremy in Seoul. In 2006 the drummer Yamaichi was replaced by Shunji Fujino due to musical differences. The next album IV followed in October 2008 . In May 2009, Vigilante was seen live at the Tomahawk Metal Fest in Hong Kong , where she befriended the Brazilian group Hibria . In 2009 the band started a series of metal events called "Orgasm Metal", with singer Niwa mainly responsible for the organization. So far over 70 bands have participated in these events. In the following year, Omoto had the idea to re-record old song material, as he hoped for a different sound through the line-up changes in recent years. In the same year the EP Retrospective into Chaos Vol. 1 was released . In 2012 the EP Of Insanity and Justice was published, the limited edition of which included the bonus DVD Live at Orgasm Metal 2010–2012 . Since the publication of IV , the members had also devoted themselves to other projects. In 2017, the recording of the next album began, which was released in the same year under the name Terminus of Thoughts .
style
According to Vigilante's Facebook presence, the band was initially influenced by groups like the Scorpions , Savage Grace and Running Wild . Bands like Rush and Fates Warning were added later .
Martin Popoff wrote in his book The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties about chaos pilgrimage that bombastic progressive metal can be heard on it. It's traditional groovy metal , reminiscent of Fates Warning. Boris Kaiser from Rock Hard called Chaos-Pilgrimage Progressive Metal without "slipping into bombast areas" and recalling early Fates Warning and Majesty and drew a comparison to Kingsbane from Canada . A weak point is the singing, which is no longer accurate, especially in the higher registers. For Kaiser, Edge of Time was “honest, powerful, melodic, epic Power Metal” and placed the album between works by Heir Apparent , Leatherwolf and Vicious Rumors . Similarities to Helloween , Black Sabbath and Tony MacAlpine can also be identified. He viewed the "squeaky" vocals and the rarely catchy, albeit stylistically varied, songs as negative. However, the compatriots of Anthem were more inventive and inspired . In an interview with Stefan Glas from the same magazine, Hiroshi Omoto stated that Cosmic Intuition was more of classic progressive rock .
Discography
- 1994: The Classified Table (demo, self-published)
- 1995: Fatal Superstition (demo, self-published)
- 1995: Promo 1995 (demo, self-publication)
- 1998: Chaos Pilgrimage (Album, Eternal Riddle Records )
- 1999: Thumbnail at You, Master (Single, Eternal Riddle Records)
- 1999: Edge of Time (album, Eternal Riddle Records)
- 2002: Chaos-Pilgrimage / Edge of Time (compilation, Biozone Music )
- 2004: Cosmic Intuition (album, Eternal Riddle Records)
- 2008: IV (album, Soundholic Records )
- 2010: Retrospective into Chaos Vol. 1 (EP, self-published)
- 2010: Of Insanity and Justice (EP, self-published)
- 2017: Terminus of Thoughts (album, self-published)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vigilante (11) - Chaos-Pilgrimage / Edge Of Time. Discogs , accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ a b Info. Facebook , accessed June 12, 2019 .
- ↑ Martin Popoff : The Collector's Guide of Heavy Metal Volume 3: The Nineties . Collectors Guide Ltd, Burlington, Ontario, Canada 2007, ISBN 978-1-894959-62-9 , pp. 488 f .
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: Vigilante . Chaos pilgrimage. In: Rock Hard . No. 139 , December 1998, pp. 59 .
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: Vigilante . Chaos pilgrimage. In: Rock Hard . No. 143 , April 1999, p. 100 f .
- ↑ Boris Kaiser: Vigilante . Edge of time. In: Rock Hard . No. 151 , December 1999, p. 110 f .
- ↑ Stefan Glas: Vigilante . Final destination? In: Rock Hard . No. 376 , September 2018, p. 76 .